Recently I became frustrated with the amount of inexplicable disk access going on on my old iMac – something was thrashing the hard disk relentlessly and blocking other apps.

Using sudo fs_usage I found that the main activity after login was Dropbox (which was fair enough), the Akamai background downloader for Adobe Creative Cloud (which wasn’t) and Spotify’s background web service (which was just bizarre)

So I found and deleted the akamai downloader for Adobe Creative Cloud:

/Applications/Akamai/admintool uninstall -force

Then told Spotify not to open at startup and not to allow itself to be started from the web:

sudo fs_usage then reported a lot of access from the launch services daemon which seemed to be thrashing th disk for no reason, so dumped and rebuilt its database:

And now, touch wood-coloured plastic, it all seems to be much improved. Launch services and spotify still do a lot after login but it settles down after a minute or two instead of this constant thrashing it was doing.

# The authenticity of host ‘github.com (207.97.227.239)’ can’t be established.
# RSA key fingerprint is 16:27:ac:a5:76:28:2d:36:63:1b:56:4d:eb:df:a6:48.
# Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)?
Don’t worry, this is supposed to happen. Verify that the fingerprint matches the one here and type “yes”.

# Hi username! You’ve successfully authenticated, but GitHub does not
# provide shell access.
If that username is correct, you’ve successfully set up your SSH key. Don’t worry about the shell access thing, you don’t want that anyway.

In the local project, assuming it’s not under any VCS at the moment:

git init
git add .
git commit -m "initial commit"

Create a new repository on the command line

On github, create a new empty repo

Note the lines it tells you under “Push an existing repository from the command line” – or edit these ones:

Do those in the new working directory, which will add the github repo as an upstream origin repository for your local one, then push the entire history up to the master branch on there, synchronising them.

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Ian Anderson

I’m a hands-on product person who loves working in startups and agile software teams to help define, design and build great web applications that people find useful and enjoy using. I’ve built several products aimed at online learning and employability, and am keenly interested in “tech for good” and building significant online products for ethical or social businesses.